No doubt the reason for lack of cold winters for us these days is the ever
strong high pressure(S, SW), and\or lack of low pressure to the South. Of
course the two go hand in hand.
The point is, the warmer waters to our SW obviously encourage\ invigorate
the Azores High. I really think its as simple as this. I bet ya, as a
layman, I'm right ;=).
Of course, there are other areas of water which also come into play, but
this is the main player, along with the poles (ice etc.).
This is why any inland areas in Europe (Continent= Greece etc.) still have
the potential of cold weather, and still do\will, but we won't. ;=( .
Yes, we all know this, but do we? If we do, why do we still think the UK can
have cold, snowy spells like the past??
It is all so glaringly obvious. SST's rule all, and they ain't gonna get
cooler ;=( .
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"Dave.C" wrote in message
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Maybe I'm just a natural pessimist but for any of the charts I look at for
the next week or so the most consistent feature seems to be the Azores
High.
This seems quite large, quite strong at 1032mb and ridging into the Bay of
Biscay. Surely a decent cold spell is unlikely while this feature
persists,
as it usually does. While folks are looking to the North and East are they
possibly overlooking "the bleeding obvious" !
Hope I'm wrong.

Dave.